#325 xcorrgm --quiet option suppresses plot

[Artur Tarassow]

The --quiet suppresses showing the plot on the screen. Please see the following example script.

Also, --quiet does not any effect on the printed output and --silentprovokes an error. I guess that's what Marcin reported yesterday in our internal meeting.

set verbose off

open denmark
setinfo LRM --graph-name="S1"
setinfo LRY --graph-name="S2"

# Graph-name option not respected
xcorrgm LRM IBO --plot=display

# BUG 1: --quiet option does suppress the plot
# BUG 2: output is still shown while --silent option return
# an error (I guess that's the case Marcin mentioned in our meeting)
xcorrgm LRM IBO --plot=display --quiet

Artur

[Sven Schreiber]

Just to add/clarify: The doc only talks about --silent (which doesn't work currently, as you/Artur reported).

[Allin Cottrell]

This is now fixed in git. The --quiet option suppresses printing but does not suppress the plot (for the latter effect, use --plot=none). In the doc, there used to be a --silent option: that's now undocumented in favor of --quiet, but for backward compatibility --silent is treated as an alias.

As I mentioned at our last meeting, I think that the --silent option should really be reserved for cases (such as the "vecm" command) where there are two levels of suppression of printed output. Then --quiet reduces the printing, while --silent eliminates it. If there's only one level, then --quiet is preferred.

[Sven Schreiber]

Closing this as fixed. Since the silent option wasn't really working (just pseudo-documented), maybe it will be removed again instead of being kept as a hidden alias.